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Samsung patents SSDs that share speed based on who is using them

Patent drawing from the official filing.

This filing describes a way for a single solid-state drive (SSD) to manage multiple users or services at once. It assigns each user a specific speed limit, but allows them to use extra speed if the drive is not busy with other tasks.

Why it mattersThis could make shared storage in data centers more efficient by letting idle space be used by active users without slowing down others.

In the filing’s own words

Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for multitenancy SSD configuration. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include identifying an identifier of a first tenant of a storage device and assigning a first performance level to the first tenant. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include generating a first performance parameter based on the first performance level and sending, to the storage device, a configuration message comprising the first performance parameter and the identifier of the first tenant.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: assigning a reserved bandwidth value to a first tenant; assigning a maximum bandwidth limit to the first tenant; determining that unused storage bandwidth is available; and permitting the first tenant to exceed the maximum bandwidth limit responsive to determining the unused storage bandwidth is available.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: MULTITENANCY SSD CONFIGURATION
Publication number: US20260319662A1
Application number: 19708859
Filed: Jun 15, 2026
Published: Oct 15, 2026
Inventors: 7
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06F 3/061 Physics & computingG06F 3/0659 Physics & computingG06F 3/0679 Physics & computing

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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